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Top 10 Green Trends for 2010
28 January 2010- Energy performance labeling
- The smart grid and connected home
- Energy labeling for homes and office buildings
- Building information modeling (BIM) software
- Financial community buy-in to green building
- Rightsizing of homes
- Eco-districts
- Water conservation
10 Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010
28 January 2010- Globally integrated future - better known as cheap, quick and global.
- World power.
- Technologically enabled future.
- China Ltd.
- Thick as a BRIC.
- The Young and the Restless: The Radical Global Entrepreneur.
- Come-out-of-nowhere theory.
- The Age of Online Factory Direct (OFD).
- Global Small Business Heroes.
- Borderless venture capital (BVC).
Social Enterprise – 2010
26 January 2010- Co-working goes mainstream.
- Divisions between traditional “giving” sectors will continue to fade.
- Micro-activism will proliferate.
- More small causes will be aggregated to achieve greater impact.
- New ways to measure impact will emerge. Online swarms gain clout.
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Top 10 technology trends for 2010
26 January 2010- $100 whole human genome
- Mobile continues to be the platform
- 22nm computing node confirmed for 2011
- Supercomputers reach 15% human capacity
- Confirmation of synthetic biology fuel launch for 2011
- Smart grid and smart meter deployment
- Increased choice in personal transportation
- Real-time internet search dominates
- Advent of health advisors and wellness coaches
- WiMax roll-out continues
The Futurist Magazine's Top 10 Forecasts For 2010 And Beyond
26 January 2010- Your phone will tell you when you’re in love
- In the design economy of the future, people will download and print their own products
- The era of brain-to-brain telepathy dawns
- Tomorrow’s inventors will spend their days writing descriptions of the problems they want to solve, and then letting computers find the solutions
- Micronations built on artificial islands will dramatically shift the face of global politics
- Young people will read more, and the old will play more video games
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